Soul
Subtitle: Archaeology of the Spirit--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: January 19, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780062502438
First sentence: As much a source of awe and astonishment as the apparition of a sudden snow crystal appearing out of mere vapor in the night sky, subatomic particles darting in and out of the void, or the sudden surges of evolution cryptically evident in bedrock fossil, the soul appears as if from the "mysterious shadow world beyond nature" as naturalist Loren Eisley describes the dark source of "men and catfish and green leaves"